Head: Academic

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Vega School Full time

The IIE's Vega School Pretoria Campus has a vacancy for a Head: Academic

Reporting to:
Campus Head

Qualification:

  • Minimum of Postgraduate Diploma/ Bachelors Degree/ Honours Degree in Teaching Methodology or Subject Specialisation.
  • Masters Degree advantageous.

Experience:

  • Minimum 3 years management experience with 6 years teaching or lecturing experience within a tertiary environment.
  • Must have management experience in an academic setting and an understanding of the current regulatory framework and its impact on higher education and private colleges.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Academic Management

  • Create, manage and implement the campus academic delivery plan with Module Leaders (MDL's), Lecturers, and Information Specialists.

This will be achieved through the following:
- a) The achievement of greater student success (by achieving set targets) by ongoing analysis of academic results, examining evidence and reporting on and addressing areas of risk;
- b) The improvement of student retention rates through the management of the quality student support interventions and strategies to improve student perseverance/resilience;
- c) Measurement of the effectiveness of student support interventions on an ongoing basis;
- d) The management and mentoring of the Module Leader (MDL) team to support national and campus initiatives, including development plans for this team;
- e) The management of the academic development of the lecturing team with a focus on managing the progression of lecturer development, allocation of modules and lecturer workload.

  • Ensure equity of academic delivery across campuses
  • Accountable for compliance to the policies and procedures of The Independent Institute of Education.
  • Responsible for engagement with the relevant National portfolio heads regarding campus Academic performance and compliance.
  • Building and promoting an active community of best academic practice on campus.
  • Interacting with evidence and data to fully understand the status quo of the campus.
  • Handling of student disputes and complaints relating to any academic matter.
  • Handling of lecturer queries.
  • Actively engaging in action research.
  • Planning and managing improved library services to support navigators and students.
  • Coordinating and planning for annual lecturer and student award events.
  • Managing internal and external academic audit processes.
  • Assisting the National team with academic projects.
  • Managing internal and external academic audit processes.
  • Attending management meetings.

2. Academic Staff Management

  • Recruitment of academic staff and facilitating resolution of any payment issues that may arise.
  • Ensuring that all new academic staff have been trained sufficiently in order to understand their role, processes, policies and procedures.
  • Constantly reviewing information and data to identify training needs for the full academic team and carrying out appropriate training and mentoring plans
  • Responsible for the line management of the Module Leaders (MDL's), Academic Navigators, Librarian, Academic Support Coordinator and Student Experience Navigators and Research Coordinators and for clear communication of roles and responsibilities of each academic team member.
  • Planning and managing academic research output for academic navigators and recording any output on RATS
  • Identification of Development plans for permanent academic team.

3. Research & Scholarship

  • All designated academic employees are required to promote a culture of scholarship within their practice, discipline and campus/team and are also required to contribute towards The IIE's Vega achieving its annual research output targets. Individual research output unit/s will be set in consultation with your line manager on an annual basis (Informed by The IIE 018 Academic Conditions of Service Policy).
  • Plan and manage academic output with all permanent academics
  • Regular academic teaching and learning workshops to promote best practice
  • Assist Senior Lecturers to develop Senior lecturer individual portfolios and report on achievement biannually

Competencies required:

  • Interpersonal, listening and communications skills
  • Analytical and problem solving skills
  • Leadership abilities to guide, influence, motivate and develop team members
  • Organisational, planning and time management skills
  • Project management skills
  • Budget management skills
  • Quality orientated
  • Proven computer literacy competence
  • MS Word, MS Excel
  • Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of Teaching and Learning
  • Tolerance of operating in a pressurised and stressful environment and industry

Working Conditions:

  • Campus environment
  • Must be able to work on evenings and Saturdays when required
  • 08:00 17:00 Monday to Friday

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